Djimon Hounsou Quotes

• Until you are somewhat comfortable and confident and embrace who you are, as a person, you can't possibly love somebody else because you don't like yourself that much.

  Djimon Hounsou

  Like You, Embrace, Persons

  Source: collider.com

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• I am happy, and I have many reasons to be extra-happy nowadays. Life is calm, and the career is good and taking its course. And things are moving, things are moving ahead.

  Djimon Hounsou

  Moving, Calm, Reason

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I was just a very torn child, very wounded in so many areas, with no family support. I happened to the be the fifth child of my family. So everybody was already grown and had left home already.

  Djimon Hounsou

  Children, Home, Support

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• School bored me. Being educated and being intelligent are two different things. I thought I was smart enough. And I wanted to be an entertainer. I stopped going to school as a way of saying I was mature, a way of saying I was going to choose who I was going to become.

  Djimon Hounsou

  Smart, School, Intelligent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is a real problem with the lack of diversity, specifically in genre films and the superheroes our kids grow up watching and emulating, they can't really identify with. When you see the same thing, over and over again, and it seems not to speak of you and your heritage and your culture, it leaves you out of this world, a little bit. It gives a certain social distance with your world.

  Djimon Hounsou

  Growing Up, Real, Distance

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• The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor.

  Djimon Hounsou

  Kids, Men, Issues

  "Djimon Hounsou ‘Never Back Down’". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. March 11, 2008.

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• I hope more people will ask diamond companies to continue changing the way they do business in Africa.

  Djimon Hounsou

  People, Way, Diamond

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles.

  Djimon Hounsou

  Running, America, Play

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I always hope for the better for the continent and what I know comes from Africa. Living in the West we feel like we're so removed from the continent that we can somewhat shut off.

  Djimon Hounsou

  West, Feels, Continents

  Interview with Joe Utichi, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. January 24, 2007.

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• We all have our issues, no one gets away from facing their own issues, so that we can advance. Nothing is given lightly, and everything has a repercussion, as you're evolving. And, if anything, the sport itself is a great training, not only physically, but the mental discipline that it requires. The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids, and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor. It's amazing the spirituality that you get as a result of practicing and enjoying the sport. That's another plus.

  Djimon Hounsou

  Sports, Kids, Men

  Source: aalbc.com

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• The first time you see the film it takes you right back to those times and those moments. It's very difficult to be objective about the work because you really have to remove yourself and see it a couple of times before you can really involve yourself in the story.

  Djimon Hounsou

  Couple, Stories, Firsts

  "RT-UK: DJIMON HOUNSOU INTERVIEW". Interview with Joe Utichi, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. January 24, 2007.

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• Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction.

  Djimon Hounsou

  Trying, Tone, Diction

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If anything, Calvin Klein is the iconic company in terms of fashion. They do have iconic images for their campaigns.

  Djimon Hounsou

  Fashion, Campaigns, Term

  "Djimon Hounsou ‘Never Back Down’". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. March 11, 2008.

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• I wanna begin saying a story about my son. I have a four-year old son who loves superheroes from Spider-Man to Iron Man to Batman. He's got all the costumes. One day he looks at me and says 'Dad, I want to be light-skinned so I could be Spider-Man. Spider-Man has light skin.' That was sort of a shock. This is why I am excited to be a part of the Marvel Universe, so I could be hopefully provide that diversity in the role of the superhero.

  Djimon Hounsou

  Dad, Son, Men

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